Aidan R. W. Boone was born in Virginia, but has lived most of his life in Tennessee.In 2008 he graduated from Farragut High School, and he is currently a rising junior atVanderbilt University earning hisbachelor’s degree

in the Biomedical EngineeringDepartment.

Since

2007, while a

high school

senior,

he has been participating in research projectsat Oak Ridge National Laboratory.He initially did some genetics research involving diabetesand adipocytes, then returned to do summerwork in the Image Science and Machine Visiongroup

working on automated diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy.He has been working thispast spring in the biomaterials lab at Vanderbilt University,and